Call the Midwife topped the night with a huge 8.62m (30.4%) for BBC One in the 8pm slot, while Top Gear fell to 4.65m (16.4%), as ITV's All Star Family Fortunes and Dancing on Ice's 'Skate-Off' overtook the motoring program with 4.97m (18.3%) and 5.09m (17.6%) respectively, adding 247k and 229k on +1.

Dancing on Ice's main performance show had 6.54m (27.7%) between 6.30pm and 7.45pm, slightly trailing Countryfile which took 6.74m (27.4%) for BBC One.

Professor Brian Cox's The Wonders of Life continued with 2.54m (10.2%) in BBC Two's 9pm slot, while Person of Interest attracted Channel 5's highest audience of 1.07m (4.8%) as well as 163k on +1, and Channel 4's The Hotel logged 1.62m (7.2%) an hour earlier at 8pm (+1: 498k).